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The questions of how best to care for an aging population and what effect this care will have on the federal budget are increasingly on the forefront of providers’ and policymakers’ minds. A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation …

In this blog post, we take a look at how utilization and price of healthcare in the United States compare to similarly wealthy and sizable OECD countries. The analysis uses 2013 health utilization data from the OECD Health Statistics database, …

The growth in health spending has slowed to historically low levels in recent years, leading to intense interest in monthly and quarterly reports of health spending that were previously only followed by a small group of technical experts.

The recent slowdown in health spending growth continued through 2013, according to a new report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Health spending per capita grew at 2.9% in 2013, a continuation of the historically low …

Although Medicare provides Americans over the age of 65 with nearly universal health insurance coverage, seniors in the U.S. nevertheless face more cost-related access problems than elderly adults in other industrialized countries, according to a recent study.

While health spending growth has slowed in recent years, over the long-term healthcare costs have grown significantly, with per capita spending increasing about tenfold since the early 1980s. Health spending growth has consistently outpaced U.S. economic growth and is higher …

Family health coverage increased 3% in 2014 and now averages $16,834 annually, according to the 2014 Employer Health Benefits Survey. Covered workers contribute $402 per month, or $4,823 annually for family coverage. Premiums for single-coverage plans are $6,025, similar to …

A study of trends in healthcare affordability found that between 1995 and 2012, while healthcare became less affordable for American households across the board, the lowest income groups experienced the greatest decline in affordability of care.

Analysis of OECD data shows that the U.S. has the highest rate of infant mortality among comparably wealthy countries. The OECD data are limited, however, in that countries vary in the methods by which they report infant mortality.

Using state-level mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System, researchers estimated annual life expectancy by race for the period from 1990 to 2009. Over the twenty year period, the racial gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites declined …